You're good imo, I don't think you have anything to apologize for on this one because there's serious intergenerational trauma involved and that doesn't just go away overnight.
User hello hello made a hilarious version that has the resistance red arrow over the star, sort of a graffiti aesthetic: https://hexbear.net/post/5886556
But someone else pointed out that adopting anything other than the Zionist entity's national flag is a tacit concession to the fascist conflation of Judaism with Zionism, and I think that's correct. If Israeli Zionists really want their genocidal project to be recognized as a political entity then it should at least be open to all the same acts of condemnation that any other oppressive nation-state is exposed to.
Otherwise yeah, it's Jewish supremacy/exceptionalism, and if anti-Zionist Jewish people such as yourself and Norm Finkelstein openly recognize it as such, then what's stopping us? I think we're discerning enough to recognize when burning something with the star of David on it is an act of anti-Jewish hatred versus a condemnation of the settler-colonial project that claims to speak for all Jewish people.
The most reasonable argument I can see for not changing this position is that there could be legal repercussions on the site depending on how things go in legislation, but that's a distant hypothetical, and why would there suddenly be repercussions now? I think it's more important to make the site less hostile to Palestinian and other Arab users anyway. Since people do use this site for mutual aid, I think we can't hide behind the excuse that it's a non-serious shitposting site forever, and besides, I want it to be less of a white western echo chamber anyway, but I digress. I'm in favor of changing the emoji to the actual flag of the hateful, antisemitic Zionist entity.
Yeah WhyEsEff has actually made a preponderance of the emojis overall and does good work for the site, I don't think she should catch any flak for this because she still left the door open for someone else to come up with the emoji. But that's also means I don't think there's an actual sitewide rule against posting images of burning Israel flags, it was just accepted as a personal decision and left at that, at the time.
Thank you, I appreciate that you did type that up and actually it's a relief to know others are seeing the same things. You are seen. And it's starting to feel like we're in the majority here.
It's definitely worth trying, it's one of my favorite mods for any game for how seamlessly the content integrates with the original game, and the music and writing are honestly excellent imo.
True enough and very good point, thank you for keeping it real. Definitely not trying to die on that hill, actually now that you mention it I feel like that was an ass take on my part. I've thought about it a little more and I think the most reasonable argument is that depending on how the laws go, having an emoji like that could end up getting the site shut down. But that's very hypothetical and meanwhile, yeah they're starving hundreds of thousand of children for crying out loud. Country full of psycho killers doesn't deserve that kind of consideration.
But actually I don't remember this ever being made a policy in the first place. If I recall correctly, WhyEsEff said she personally wasn't comfortable making the emoji but if someone else wanted to, they're free to do so. Then everyone just left it at that. Anyway, I'm for it, and I might fire up GIMP myself.
I mean I agree that a burning Israel flag emoji would give fascists rhetorical ammunition (edit: very poor choice of words but I believe in posting your Ls) but agreeing with the antisemitism smear is a step too far. If Norm Finkelstein and other anti-Zionist Jewish people see fit to call Zionism a Jewish supremacist project then I'm not inclined to agree that it's antisemitic to say so.
Also deflecting criticism by yelling at people to go outside strikes me as disingenuous, un-self aware, and fragile. Maybe this site is mostly for shitposting but I don't see what's wrong with using it as a sounding board to figure out how you feel about real life issues, some of the time.
Multiverse is amazing, it's one of my favorite mods for any game because it feels so seamless how they extended everything in FTL and the music and writing are actually well executed, interesting, and original. Definitely fulfills that feeling of wanting more FTL once you've played the base game all different ways and unlocked everything.
Also there's only one side in this conflict that has consistently tried to negotiate in good faith, de-escalate, and reach peace agreements that respect the actual political desires of people in the donbas and crimea, and it's not the NATO side.
Can't help but notice that both of your comments here are smug and sarcastic while making no attempt to acknowledge that several people have given substantive replies to both of them. Same deal as most people who wade into this instance to do apologia for the US/NATO side in this proxy war. Well, it's the same playbook that we've seen in Yugoslavia, Syria, and all the other places that the US has used proxy forces and hybrid warfare to break up the enemies and victims of its imperialist project.
People here tend to take the position of critical support of Russia in this conflict and revolutionary defeatism with respect to US imperialism, broadly speaking. Don't you think you might stand to learn something if you actually engage with people on this, or are you afraid to do so? Are you sure you've understood the positions that you're mocking? Your glib replies here suggest you have not.
New York State Executive Order 157: Issued in 2016 by then-Governor Cuomo, this order directs state entities to divest public funds from institutions or companies supporting the BDS campaign against Israel. The order aims to prevent state agencies from investing in or promoting activities related to the BDS campaign.
New York City Council Resolution 1058-2016: This resolution condemns efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global BDS movement.
Plus we have severe repression of the pro-Palestine/anti-genocide movement at Columbia University and by the NYPD, meanwhile Itamar Ben Gvir gets to saunter around NYC with a police detail. Of course it's relevant.
Being able to periodize history into more granular chronologies (like OP's timeline of the COVID-denying ideological project) allows us to isolate particular chains of events that share a special relationship. OP is talking about a specific project to revise history and negate historical memory about the damage done by official pandemic denialism. It doesn't seem helpful to OP's criticism of this ongoing denialism to paint COVID as "just another emergency."
The lack of any real left-wing defense of historical memory of COVID, pushback against this liberal revisionism, or opposition to the culture of soft eugenics around the pandemic are serious problems. Wordplay is right, the left by and large has almost completely ceded this ground, and worse, has gone right along with this project to deny and minimalize COVID. We still have "leftists" who won't mask and really don't want to hear about it. That only helps entrench the systemic sociopathy around COVID.
I'm aware of that, the distinction applies where I live too, it's just that it's absurd to treat something that amounts to harsh language / name-calling the same as a direct threat of physical violence. Though actually there are analogous rules prohibiting verbal abuse of airline employees, but actual fines for calling a cop a fascist strikes me as exceptionally fragile.
I guess people just have a will to normalize a permanent plague but honestly it's staggering that this is where we're at 5-6 years after it first started. Just so bleak.
You're good imo, I don't think you have anything to apologize for on this one because there's serious intergenerational trauma involved and that doesn't just go away overnight.
User hello hello made a hilarious version that has the resistance red arrow over the star, sort of a graffiti aesthetic: https://hexbear.net/post/5886556
But someone else pointed out that adopting anything other than the Zionist entity's national flag is a tacit concession to the fascist conflation of Judaism with Zionism, and I think that's correct. If Israeli Zionists really want their genocidal project to be recognized as a political entity then it should at least be open to all the same acts of condemnation that any other oppressive nation-state is exposed to.
Otherwise yeah, it's Jewish supremacy/exceptionalism, and if anti-Zionist Jewish people such as yourself and Norm Finkelstein openly recognize it as such, then what's stopping us? I think we're discerning enough to recognize when burning something with the star of David on it is an act of anti-Jewish hatred versus a condemnation of the settler-colonial project that claims to speak for all Jewish people.
The most reasonable argument I can see for not changing this position is that there could be legal repercussions on the site depending on how things go in legislation, but that's a distant hypothetical, and why would there suddenly be repercussions now? I think it's more important to make the site less hostile to Palestinian and other Arab users anyway. Since people do use this site for mutual aid, I think we can't hide behind the excuse that it's a non-serious shitposting site forever, and besides, I want it to be less of a white western echo chamber anyway, but I digress. I'm in favor of changing the emoji to the actual flag of the hateful, antisemitic Zionist entity.